I have always been intrigued by still life paintings. I had heard they were where young artists started out, learning colour, light and texture on a bowl of fruit or a jar …

Three days in Amsterdam covers the big sights. Five days lets them breathe. There is time to see the Rijksmuseum without rushing the Vermeers, to give Keukenhof the full day it deserves, …

Amsterdam‘s Red Light District, known in Dutch as De Wallen, is one of those places almost every visitor to Amsterdam wants to see, and walking tours of it are very popular. So …

I passed through Museumplein more times than I can count on this trip. It sits between the Rijksmuseum, the Van Gogh Museum and Moco, and it is a short walk from the …

The Netherlands is small, and the trains are good, so a lot of the country is within a day of Amsterdam. I only managed two day trips: Keukenhof and Zaanse Schans, on …

At the end of April and the start of May, I thought the city centre would be buzzing with tulips. It wasn’t. Maybe I had missed the moment. Amsterdam was buzzing in …

After the Night Watch, I thought the rest of the Gallery of Honour would be a breeze. The Night Watch hangs in its own room at the far end of the gallery, …

I did not expect to love the pasta at The Duchess in Amsterdam as much as I did. Every dish we ordered was excellent and full of flavour, and the pastas were …

Amsterdam rewards a plan. The Night Watch, Almond Blossom and the canal ring are all here, but so are the timed tickets, the terraces where nobody gives up a table on a …

‘t Nieuwe Kafé is on Dam Square, facing the Royal Palace, right in the centre of Amsterdam. The W Amsterdam, where we stayed for a few days, sits just behind the palace, …

I spent a week in Amsterdam in late April and early May 2026, and I left with a list of places I still want to go back to. This is the short …

Who would have guessed that one of my favourite meals in Amsterdam would be Chinese? I did not come to the Netherlands expecting to eat Chinese food, let alone to enjoy it …